that Live it Up is dominated by tunes which are catchy but generic and mindless. He added that the songs "Yours and Mine", "Arrows", and in particular "After the Dolphin" offer genuine depth and meaning, but that the overall product is "a strangely bland album that only die-hard fans will love." Jeff Giles covered Live it Up in his retrospective series "Whoops!", assessing it as an embarrassingly failed attempt to marry the hippie sensibilities of Crosby, Stills & Nash's past with the glossy production values of the era in which the album was recorded. He cited its contemporary, Don Henley's The End of the Innocence, as a much more successful attempt at this combination. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann praised both the band's singing and the performances of the session musicians, and argued that it is only a complete lack of good songs which makes Live it Up the weakest Crosby, Stills & Nash studio album. Track listing Personnel Crosby, Stills & Nash David Crosby – backing vocals, electric guitar (3), lead vocals (5, 9, 10) Stephen Stills – backing vocals, lead guitar (1), guitar solo (2), lead vocals (3, 4, 6, 10), keyboards (3), electric guitar (3, 7), acoustic guitar (4, 6), bass (6) Graham Nash – backing vocals, lead vocals (1, 2, 7, 8, 10), acoustic guitar (3, 8) Additional personnel Joe Vitale – keyboards (1, 2, 5), guitar synthesizer (1, 2, 5), synth bass (1, 3, 10), drums, synthesizers (6, 8), percussion (7), synth strings (9), organ (10) Craig Doerge – keyboards (2, 5, 7-10) Bruce Hornsby – acoustic piano (6), accordion (6) Michael Landau – guitars (2, 10) Roger McGuinn – guitars (2) Peter Frampton – guitar solo (7) Leland Sklar – bass (2, 9, 10) Bob Glaub – bass (3, 5, 7, 8) Michael Fisher – percussion (2, 10) Michito Sanchez – percussion (3, 6) Tony Beard – percussion programming (5), electric guitar (7) Vince Charles – percussion (9) Branford Marsalis – soprano saxophone (2, 9) The Williams Family – additional vocals (1) John David Souther – additional vocals (2) Rand Wetherwax – sound design including radio broadcast voices of Simon Jones and Harry S. Truman (10) Production Crosby, Stills & Nash – producers Stanley Johnston – producer, engineer (1, 3-9), mixing Joe Vitale – producer, additional engineer Niko Bolas – engineer (2, 10) Allen Abrahamson – additional engineer Ray Blair –